The Call to Mercy

A factory farm is a large-scale industrial operation that houses thousands of জন্তু জানোয়ার raised for food—mainly chickens, turkeys, cows and pigs—and treats them with hormones and antibiotics to prevent disease and maximize their growth and খাবার output. These জন্তু জানোয়ার lead short, painful lives and often produce খাবার that is lower in quality than those জন্তু জানোয়ার raised in healthy environments.

A few of the practices employed দ্বারা factory farms are:

Feeding জন্তু জানোয়ার antibiotics on a consistent basis. Humans consuming these dairy and meat products may lose some of their ability to fight certain strains...

1. Be a good neighbor! Please don’t allow your pets to have access to your neighbors’ yards and trash cans. If your dog is an incessant barker and/or howls and whines while আপনি are away, আপনি may want to work with an animal behaviorist অথবা dog trainer to solve the problem. Should your neighbors have concerns, try to address them in a positive, constructive manner to avoid serious conflicts.

2. Is your pet allowed outdoors in your fenced-in অথবা otherwise secure area? It’s smart to do routine checks of this enclosed area.

3. Be sure to remove unfamiliar অথবা questionable items from the enclosure....

Cockfighting—a blood sport in which two roosters specifically bred for aggressiveness are placed beak to beak in a small ring and encouraged to fight to the death—has been around for centuries. Roosters were first bred for fighting in Southeast Asia আরো than 3,000 years ago, and cockfighting later spread to Greece, Rome and Britain before crossing the Atlantic about 200 years ago. The brutal “sport" found popularity in North, South and Central Americas, and was particularly prevalent in Colonial New York, Philadelphia and Boston. দ্বারা the 1800s, it had spread to the South and the West...

I think and I watch
As they sit down to eat
Some লেটুস and bread
But mostly red meat

I watch as they chew
Flesh apart in their mouths
How can they consume
All those dead cows

Ripped from their mothers
Locked in a crate
Calves who were taken
For veal on your plate

But here আপনি are chewing
And using your knife
To cut flesh apart
That once had a life

You seem very smart
But আপনি don't have a clue
You seem very caring
But how caring are you

Dedicated to religion
But your stomach is the grave
To many murdered animals
That আপনি forgot to save

Animals feel pain
They're just like me and you
Kind of makes me wonder
How selfish...